Well, guess what?

[cmspaz]

I got a ticket in the Evo already!

And no, it's not what you're thinking. I received a wonderful citation at 12:30 tonight for "Failure to yield for an emergency vehicle". AKA, I didn't move over a full lane width while a cop was extracting free money for the state from some other poor sap on the side of the road.

The cop had the guy pulled over a few (~50) feet before a cloverleaf, and I needed to take the cloverleaf. I thought about moving over a lane, but decided against it due to needing to merge two lanes back over to make my exit, so I moved over in my lane to give him space and shaved off some speed to 10 below the limit. And apparently being somewhat courteous doesn't fly anymore, wanting to be safe instead of flying across two lanes to make an exit doesn't cut it, no, I genuinely put that officer's life in danger doing 40mph 6 feet away from him. Sure, traffic wasn't heavy, sure, I could have made it over and back. But I feel like I made the best and safest decision given the situation.

And that's all fine and good, however you feel about it, but the big deal for me is the points. Anyone ever fought one of these? Will it work the same as a speeding ticket or should I expect to have a little more difficulty than just talking the DA into letting me pay the fine to drop it?

Also, not that it matters because he got my plate right, but my car's down as a Subaru Impreza. Stupid fucker.